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Creating Groups
August 11, 2011, 06:37:24 pm
Looking at trying to create groups through the API (as I need to create 220 of them), but it seems a lot more confusing that creating contacts, addresses, e-mails etc.

Half of them will be regular groups, while half will be smart groups (to be used for ACL management).

It's the Where_clause, select_tables, and where_tables that are giving me trouble.

Anyone got an example of a create group using API v3 for:
  • A regular group with no contacts added initially
  • A smart group based with members based on city

Thanks

Brian

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Re: Creating Groups
August 11, 2011, 08:04:12 pm

If you have so many groups that u want to ACL, i'd strongly recommend that you consider using the ACL Hooks:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-Permissionrelatedhooks

The UI based ACL scheme might not scale to that many groups, IMO

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Re: Creating Groups
August 12, 2011, 04:47:10 am
Hmm, thanks Lobo - that looks like an interesting approach.

I'll give it a try today. There is an awful lot to learn about CiviCRM - but it seems to be setting up nicely for us. Looking forward to contributing once I get the basics under my belt.

Brian
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